Time: 16. February 14:15 Place: Christies gate 17 or Zoom. We welcome you to our RDV seminar with an excellent speaker, Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde. He will give a presentation titled “Protecting children from what? An overview of child protection in legal history”, in which he will shed light on where legal history research stands today […]
Thursday, January 26, 14:15-15:30 CET Welcome to this semester’s first RDV seminar. We kick off the semester with insights by Conor O’Mahony on his experiences of being the Special Rapporteur on Child Protection to the Government of Ireland. He will provide us with an overview of the nature of the position, which is relatively unusual […]
“Mer enn det humanitære blikket. Jørgen Grindes fotografier fra Midtøsten på 1950-tallet.” Fotoutstilling på Universitetsbiblioteket i Bergen, Haakon Sheteligs plass 7, Bergen. Utstillingen åpnet 26. januar 2023 og vil stå fram til 15. mai 2023. Alle er hjertelig velkommen til å besøke utstillingen i bibliotekets åpningstid, og omvisning kan avtales nærmere med kuratorene. Utstillingen er også […]
Dato og tid: 27 januar 2023, 09:00 – 09:45 Sted: Zoom På fredagens barnevernfrokost presenteres resultater fra en av de første studiene om netthets av barnevernsarbeidere. Tre eksperter fra Irland, dr. Kenneth Burns, dr. Fiachra Ó Suilleabháin og Olwen Halvey, har undersøkt hva som skjer og hvordan dette oppleves og håndteres i det irske barnevernssystemet. Dette er […]
Dato og tid: 16 desember 2022, 09:00 – 09:45 Sted: Zoom I en av de aller første undersøkelsene til dags dato om barns erfaring med familieveiledning som hjelpetiltak, viser rapporten «Må hjelpe for oss» at barn ofte ikke er involvert. Mange barn har ikke fått informasjon om at familien får veiledning, om hvem som gir veiledning, hva […]
BeExSampa took place from 5 to 8 December with combined live and hybrid seminars. The main focus was on Latin America’s Dynamics of Democracy and Autocratization: Researching Autocratization and Resistance: Theoretical, Methodological and Ethical Challenges A range of theoretical, methodological, and ethical challenges take place when we engage in research on autocratization and democracy. Focusing on […]
Date/Time: 30 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 Venue: Zoom Join us to celebrate the launch of Beyond Words (Volume I and II) about truth commission recommendations in Latin America. Truth commission recommendations are critical to their legacies, yet there is little research examining their fates. Based on fieldwork that is unprecedented in scope, this two-volume project provides […]
Date/time: 14 November, 14:00-15:00 Venue: Bergen Global and Zoom Anti-corruption courts are an increasingly common feature of national anti-corruption reform strategies. By mid-2022 the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre counted 27 such courts across Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Reasons for their creation include the resolution of backlogs but also concerns about the ability of ordinary […]
Date/Time: 17. November 2022, 12:00-13:15 Venue: Bergen Global As war in Ukraine continues to unfold, disturbing accounts of sexual violence and rape perpetrated primarily by Russian and Russian-affiliated soldiers against Ukrainian citizens have been reported. These accounts of sexual violence are grim and widespread and Ukrainian civilians have spoken of experiencing and witnessing harrowing assaults […]
Date/Time: 21. October 17:15 Venue: Bergen Kino (film screening) / Kulturhuset (Chat with the director and the producers) In partnership with BIFF, Bergen International Film Festival, LawTransform will screen the Italian film “Into My Name” at the Bergen Cinema in Magnus Barfot Gate (17.15). It will open the festival’s LGBTQ programme. Next, we will have […]